The Phoenix

by Manly P. Hall

Seven thousand years of fascinating lore from around the world is reviewed in this illustrated, folio-sized volume. The table of contents The Ladder of Souls-Studies the mystery of the descent of the spiritual man into the body, further enhanced with the diagrams of Robert Fludd, an English Alchemist and Hermetic philosopher. Bodhidharma, Patriarch of Zen When the Dead Come Back -Discusses out of body experiences Albert Pike, The Plato of Freemasonry The Sorcery of Asia-The strange stories of Sky-walking Adepts, snake charmers, devil dancers, and more Concentration & Retrospection-Safe and sane disciplines The Comte de St. Germain-Greatest of the European Adepts The Cycle of Transmigration-According to the teachings of those learned lamas who are the custodians of the secret traditions in Buddhism The Tenth Avatar-Mahatma Gandhi The Wheel of Pythagoras-Invaluable to numerology students The Practice of Meditation H. P. B., The Russian Sphinx-Tells of Madame Blavatsky and includes two, full-page portraits of Mahatmas M. and K.H., painted under her supervision The Universe in Stone-The Buddhist remains of Boro Budur Kismet-A delightful story of a Caliph and an astrologer Holy Men-Those sanctified to high purpose Apollonius, "The Antichrist" Cagliostro & the Egyptian Rite of Freemasonry The Great Pyramid

Paperback

First published April 1, 1983

About the author

Canadian born, Manly Palmer Hall is the author of over 150 published works, the best known of which are Initiates of the Flame, The Story of Healing, The Divine Art,Aliens Magick and Sorcery The Secret Teachings of All Ages, and An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy.
He was also the author of a masonic curiosity, The Lost Keys of Freemasonry in 1923, more than thirty years before he joined a lodge. The preface of later editions states "At the time I wrote this slender volume, I had just passed my twenty-first birthday, and my only contact with Freemasonry was through a few books commonly available to the public." Later, in 1944, he wrote The Secret Destiny of America which popularized the myth of a masonic purpose for the founding of the USA. In 1950 he weighed in again on the meaning of Freemasonry with his booklet: Masonic Orders of Fraternity.
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Initiated: June 28, 1954
Passed: September 20, 1954
Raised November 22, 1954
Jewel Lodge No. 374
Source: Grand Lodge of California records ; William R. Denslow, 10,000 Famous Freemasons, vol. ii. Trenton, MO. : Missouri Lodge of Research / Educational Bureau, Royal Arch Mason Magazine, 1958. p. 165.